Silver OPT, Silver Capacitor, Silver Tantalum 2W... 🤣🤣🤣

higher uF will give lower bass extension.... not really a big problem...

how do you find the upgrade on Audyn? I guess should be a jump vs original caps? And which 300B you are using?

Likely... Quite interesting to see Finemet + Silver combo... Havent seen such, or I'm missing something...

Thanks ASUSXONAR. Well actually it's not really inportant for me to know you and your experience, but the most important is what you have contributed to the surrounding. They will judge themselves who you are and what are you. Everyone can write anything about everything, right? But I dont...

Well, the Audio GD will cost you 4x that the E1, right? :)   Regarding channel imbalance, I think ASUSXONAR should be able to help. This is a thing that should be covered under warranty, I think (unless you have tempered your PCB off course).   Thanks.

Quote:   Hi ASUSXONAR, Well, actually you shouldn't recommend any mods with your ASUS badge there ;) The idea is to avoid voiding the warranty, right? Not to justify the result.   I think better if you write: You wont recommend any mods with soldering practice involved :)  ...

You were not mentioning that on the first place ;) If you clearly stated: BE CAREFUL GUYS, DOING THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY. That would be the most elegant way to explain and inform as ASUS rep. But instead of doing that, you were suggesting/challenging with another way of modding, which I...

I will make it simple if it's too hard for you for saying this (and you dont have to waste time convincing people to follow your simple mod - though I'm quite sure it will void the warranty anyway, even for small soldering). FOLLOW MY MOD AND YOU WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY. clear enough? Though I...

Hi Damir, The function of the ribbon cable is to jumper the signal from the output of the low pass filter to the green Alps then back again to the final stage of the opamp. As E1 has balanced output, we need 4 gangs volume control here. My tracing result on below picture will explain more.  ...

Hi ASUSXONAR, Those UP-OCC costs around USD 2 per foot and you don't need a mile to replace those 'original ribbon'.   The spacing is not an issue. As if in PCB design, you don't have to wire signal and ground side by side to avoid what you said as SNR. The proper layout and size itself...

Hi ASUSXONAR, Cheap ribbon cable vs UP-OCC with Teflon insulated is no contest.   What is the insulation of those cheap ribbon cable? I doubt it would be better than the Teflon on the UP-OCC. Not mentioning the plastic connectors which will degrade the sound. Direct point-to-point...

Hi ASUSXONAR, Stacked Capacitor is a good one. I use Duelund VSF Cast Silver on my preamp also. Hard to return to original round winding caps one you like the Stacked Capacitor. But I have a big doubt single decoupling could do that much against all capacitor replacement (and ribbon cable...

Hi Gandah, If you follow my blog, I traced one by one (some guides there if you understand what I'm talking about).   This is because Asus use all 25-35VDC capacitor, while on some section, the high quality capacitor only available at 6.3V (like Os-Con or Black Gate NX Hi-Q). But putting...

I think this is a must have upgrade (if you have guts to do it)... The improvement is very significant... I can't hear the original E1 any longer for sure.   Will see how this will compete against Lynx HiLo (at 2500 USD MSRP) later after I pass the 200 hours.   I'm quite sure can improve...